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  • A small hole in the skin.
    Puncture
  • When a black widow bites you, there's not much swelling, and you can't see major ___ wounds.
    puncture
  • More people die from insect stings than from black widows, scorpions, and rattlesnakes combined.
    False
    True
  • Doctors look for ___ of life-threatening bites and stings.
    symptoms
  • How does an emergency room director identify the ___ that caused her injury?
    culprit
  • Signs of an illness or injury.
    Symptoms
  • What do 40,000 people in India die from every year?
    Snakebites
  • What is the type 1 reaction to an insect's sting?
  • Antivenom for rattlesnake bites is extremely pricey.
    True
    False
  • The Gila monster is a very ___ animal, and most people who get bitten are ___ one.
    docile, harassing
  • Identification of an illness or injury.
    A diagnosis
  • What symptoms would you see in the case of scorpion stings?
  • What symptoms do you look for with a rattlesnake bite?
  • What disease do skunks, bats, raccoons, foxes, and coyotes carry?
    Rabies
  • An obvious symptom of the bark scorpion's sting is roving eye ___.
    syndrome
  • We ___ scorpions when restlessness, twitching, and roving eye syndrome are absent.
    rule out
  • To bother or torment.
    To harass
  • A person or other animal responsible for an injury or crime.
    A culprit
  • What are insecticides?
  • What do all spiders produce?
    Venom
  • After the bark scorpion's sting a child will look as if they're doing a strange dance, which is a moving ___.
    disorder
  • A group of symptoms that show up together.
    A syndrome
  • With a rattlesnake bite, you start to see swelling and ___ at the site of the bite.
    discoloration
  • What symptoms will a black widow's victim have?
  • Peaceful, not aggressive.
    Docile
  • Firmly fixed.
    Embedded
  • When most other spiders bite, their venom produces local ___ but usually no full-body symptoms.
    inflammation
  • How would one know that the scorpion they have been bitten by isn't a bark scorpion?
  • Restlessness, twitching, and roving eye syndrome are symptoms of a black window's bite.
    True
    False
  • Painful redness and swelling.
    Inflammation
  • We rule out allergic reactions by ___ the patient's ability to breathe, as well as by testing their ___.
    assessing, blood pressure
  • All allergic reaction causes an extreme increase in blood pressure.
    False
    True
  • What advice did Jude McNally give to the readers?
  • Which four culprits' bites and stings are life-threatening?
    Black widow spider, scorpion, insects, rattlesnakes.
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